EVOLVE Special Edition LEVEL 1 (A1) CONTENTS Learning objectives ■ ■
Unit 1 I am …
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Say where you’re from Ask for and give personal information Check in to a hotel Write a profile Present ranked data in a chart Meet new people
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I am, you are What’s … ?; It’s …
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Unit 2 Great people
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Unit 3 Come in
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Talk about your family Describe friends and family Talk about ages and dates Write a post about friends in a photo Write a profile of a famous person Compare information about friends and family
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Talk about your home Talk about furniture Offer and accept a drink and snack Write an email about an apartment to rent Write a description of your neighborhood Choose things for a home
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is / are in statements and yes/no questions is not / are not Prepositions of place
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Possessive adjectives; possessive ’s and s’ It is (statements and questions with short answers) Information questions with be
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Simple present statements with I, you, we Simple present yes/no questions with I, you, we a/an; adjectives before nouns
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Simple present statements with he, she, they Questions in the simple present
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There’s, There are; a lot of, some, no
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Pronunciation
Countries and nationalities The alphabet Personal information Numbers (1–10) Jobs Greetings, introductions, and goodbyes
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/ɪ/ and /i/ vowel sounds
Family Numbers (11–100) Adjectives to describe people
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Saying numbers Listening for short forms
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really / very
Dates
Rooms in a home Furniture ■ Drinks and snacks ■ Building materials Academic language focus ■ Expressions with prepositions
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/k/ at the start of a word
Technology Words for using technology
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Stressed words Listening for the end of a sentence
Days and times of day Everyday activities Telling the time Stress collocations
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Syllables in words
Places in cities Nature
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/ɪr/ and /er/ sounds Listening for important words
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Review 1 (Review of Units 1–3) ■
Unit 4 I love it
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Unit 5 Mondays and fun days
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Unit 6 Zoom in, zoom out
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Talk about your favorite things Say how you use technology Talk about how you communicate Write product reviews Write a blog post about your favorite things Talk about great apps
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Talk about weekday and weekend activities Tell the time and talk about your routines Show you agree and have things in common Write a report about your activities Introduce a presentation about stress Compare different work weeks
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Talk about places in the city Talk about nature in your area Ask for and give directions Write a fact sheet about a place in nature Write an article about an interesting city Plan a new neighborhood for a city
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Review 2 (Review of Units 4–6) 62
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Count and non-count nouns
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